A perfect alignment of two galaxies recorded the NASA space telescope, James Webb.

During alignment, the closest, massive galaxy to the center distorts light from the farthest galaxy behind it, creating the rare secular “ring” of Einstein (also known as “Einstein -Havols” or “Ring”).

Einstein’s rings are formed when the image of a distant light source (eg a galaxy or star) is deformed in a ring -shaped, due to the phenomenon of its gravitational focus of one of another object of huge mass, such as a galaxy or a black hole.

Due to the gravitational focus the light is curved and if the source, the gravier lens and the observer are all aligned the light appears as a ring.

This phenomenon is very “weak” to be observed locally, but sometimes it is clearly observed when we are dealing with huge, astronomical scales, such as when light from a galaxy is bent around another galaxy or flock of galaxies.

A Einstein ring, as photographed by the Habel Space Telescope

A Einstein ring, as photographed by the Habel Space Telescope